Trial reportAging & mental health2013
Emotional benefits of mindfulness-based stress reduction in older adults: the moderating roles of age and depressive symptom severity.
Trial report in Aging & mental health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01027780 (Mindfulness to Improve Elders' Immune and Health Status), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mindfulness to Improve Elders' Immune and Health Status
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of the strength of evidence for the most commonly recommended happiness strategies in mainstream media.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing.Nature human behaviour · 2021Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in nonclinical settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction and loneliness in older adults: two randomized controlled trials.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Trial
- Mediators and moderators of change in mindfulness-based stress reduction for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- An adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction program for elders in a continuing care retirement community: quantitative and qualitative results from a pilot randomized controlled trial.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2015Trial
- Mechanics of Mindfulness: Investigating Metacognitive Beliefs as a Pathway of Effect on Anxiety and Depression.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Mindfulness training combined with cold water immersion effects on mood and perception of executive functioning in middle-aged and older adults: a pilot study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Adapting Virtual Reality-Based Mental Health Interventions for Equitable Global Use: Proof of Concept.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2024Article
- Three potential neurovascular pathways driving the benefits of mindfulness meditation for older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- A supervised exercise intervention fails to improve depressive symptoms and quality of life among sedentary older adults with HIV infection.AIDS care · 2020Article
- Protocol for a Nested Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of the Mindfulness Based Health Promotion Program on the Quality of Life of Older Adults Assisted in Primary Care-"The MBHP-Elderly Study".Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
- Using a Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Promote Subjective Well-Being, Trait Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health, and Resilience in Women With Fibromyalgia.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Older Adults: A Review of the Effects on Physical and Emotional Well-being.Mindfulness · 2016Article
- The effects of daily co-occurrence of affect on older adults' reactivity to health stressors.Psychology & health · 2016Article
- Prospects for a clinical science of mindfulness-based intervention.The American psychologist · 2015Review
- Stress on health-related quality of life in older adults: the protective nature of mindfulness.Aging & mental health · 2015Article
- Mindfulness: an effective coaching tool for improving physical and mental health.Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the effects of age and depressive symptom severity on changes in positive affect among older adults randomly assigned to a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program or a Waitlist Control group. Drawing from the Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development, we hypothesized that lower levels of depressive symptom severity and older age would be associated with greater positive affect in response to the MBSR intervention.
methodsData were collected from a sample of community-dwelling English-speaking adults (n = 200) aged ≥ 65, randomly assigned to an eight-week MBSR program or a Waitlist Control group. Our main outcome variable was a five-item measure of positive affect, which was measured at study entry as well as eight weeks and six months later.
resultsAt the six-month follow-up, we observed group by baseline depressive symptom severity (β = -.17, p = .02) and group by baseline depressive symptom severity by age (β = -.14, p = .05) interactions. Among MBSR participants, greater baseline depressive symptom severity was also associated with less improvement in positive affect at the six-month follow-up (β = -.30, p = .003). Findings were qualified by a significant depressive symptom severity by age interaction (β = -.25, p = .01), such that MBSR participants who were 70 and over with lower baseline depressive symptom severity having the greatest improvement in positive affect at the six-month follow-up.
conclusionMBSR improves positive affect for older adults with lower depressive symptom severity, perhaps because it capitalizes on naturalistic changes in control strategies.
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